Total bridges
222
Public highway bridges in Daviess County
County profile · official public datasets
Daviess County, MO
222 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 27.5% rated Good, 48.2% Fair, 24.3% Poor.
- 222
- Public bridges
- 27.5%
- Good condition
- 24.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Daviess County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 114th
- of 115 on Poor share
- 24.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 222
- public highway bridges
- 1970
- avg year built
Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.
Daviess County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Daviess County ranks #114 of 115 Missouri counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 24.3%). Daviess County, Missouri contains 222 public highway bridges. Roughly 27.5% are rated “Good,” 48.2% “Fair,” and 24.3% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.
Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.
Good condition
27.5%
61 of 222 rated 7-9
Fair condition
48.2%
107 of 222 rated 5-6
Poor condition
24.3%
54 of 222 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#114 of 115
Among Missouri counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 222 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 27.5% (61)
Fair 48.2% (107)
Poor 24.3% (54)
Daviess County's Poor-condition bridges carry 10,751 vehicle crossings a day
That is 9.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 24.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 199 crossings a day against 582 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.
Computed over the 222 of 222 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
50.9% of Daviess County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
113 of the 222 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 27.5% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.
Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
One structure carries 68.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
IS 35 N over GRAND RVR, built 1976, carries 7,358 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 54-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 10,751 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Daviess County's bridges were built
222 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s
1910–1919
18 bridges
- 1920s
1920–1929
22 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
18 bridges
- 1940s 7
1940–1949
7 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
15 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
22 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
18 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
16 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
25 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
33 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
21 bridges
- 2020s 6
2020–2029
6 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 33 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 14.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1970, 9 years older than the Missouri average of 1979.
How Daviess County compares with Missouri's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Missouri counties nearest Daviess County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 24.3% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1970 against a peer-group mean of 1982 is 12 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 114 Missouri counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saline County | 230 | 33.9% | 53% | 13% | 1976 |
| Butler County | 227 | 49.3% | 42.3% | 8.4% | 1981 |
| Cole County | 227 | 27.3% | 63.9% | 8.8% | 1982 |
| Pike County | 225 | 34.7% | 56.9% | 8.4% | 1981 |
| Sullivan County | 224 | 56.3% | 36.6% | 7.1% | 1990 |
| Daviess County (this page) | 222 | 27.5% | 48.2% | 24.3% | 1970 |
Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Daviess County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Daviess County, both outside Missouri so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MO (222 bridges here).
- Hot Spring County, AR · 222 bridges
- Woodford County, IL · 223 bridges
- Ford County, KS · 223 bridges
- Hardin County, KY · 223 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MO (1970 here).
- Hamilton County, OH · avg 1970 · 783 bridges
- Yavapai County, AZ · avg 1970 · 543 bridges
- Garfield County, OK · avg 1970 · 504 bridges
- San Luis Obispo County, CA · avg 1970 · 401 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (54)
PRAIRIE AVE
PoorOver: MUDDY CR
S 21 T 59 N R 26 W, Daviess, MO
Built 1910 Load: 33.3 t ADT: 35
ISLE AVE
PoorOver: BIG MUDDY CR
S 7 T 60 N R 27 W, Daviess, MO
Built 1990 Load: 37.8 t ADT: 35
LILAC AVE
PoorOver: LOST CR
S 27 T 60 N R 27 W, Daviess, MO
Built 1977 Load: 38.7 t ADT: 60
232ND ST
PoorOver: BIG MUDDY CR
S 20 T 61 N R 27 W, Daviess, MO
Built 1910 Load: 41.4 t ADT: 15
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